TITS !

One of those days when a walk around the local Bay produces very little over the average but when I return home find that due to the snow a variety of birds have decided to descend on the bird feeders !

A group of around 15 Long-Tailed Tits with 4 Blue Tits and 2 Great Tits fed on the fat balls and peanut feeders.

BLUE & LONG-TAILED TIT

LONG-TAILED TITS

LONG-TAILED TITS

LONG-TAILED TITS WITH GREAT TIT IN BACKGROUND

Other birds viewed from the comfy sofa included Jay,Great Spotted Woodpecker,Collared Dove,Dunnock,Blackbird,Robin,Female Caffinch,Song Thrush,Carrion Crow,Magpie,Herring Gull and House Sparrow.

WINTER WALK AROUND STONELEES

A morning walk around Stonelees and first to show itself was a group of around 25 Fieldfare feeding on the Hawthorn berries and as is there nature as soon as I was spotted by them they took flight.

FIELDFARE

Continuing work by Kent Wildlife Trust to restore the ancient Duneland Pasture at Stonelees with the aid of the Highland Cattle and work with contractors creating new ponds is starting to produce a fantastic habitat.

PONDS STONELEES

HIGHLAND CATTLE

HIGHLAND CATTLE

Other birds identified at Stonelees were Long Tailed,Blue & Great Tits,Blackbird,Song Thrush,Carrion Crow,Brambling,Chaffinch,Greenfinch,Starling and Little Egret.

Back to Pegwell Reserve and just past the Exmoor Ponies the local Kestrel was hunting.

EXMOOR PONY

I then returned to the Bird Hide and as in previous reports the same list Turnstone,Oystercatcher,Redshank,Grey & Golden Plover,Curlew,Cormorant,Shelduck,Mallard,

Lapwing,Knot,Bar-Tailed Godwit,Black-Headed,Common,Herron,Lesser Black Backed,Great Black Backed Gull,Grey Heron.

PHEASANT

PEGWELL & STONELEES

Spent a few hours this morning walking around Stonelees and Pegwell Bay on this clear day.

New ponds were being created in the Stonelees area by Contractors reclaiming the accient Dunes back from the scrub !

On the old refuse site amongst the Fruit trees was a Great Spotted Woodpecker along with Blue Tits and Great Tits.

Further along towards the Bird Hide a group of Reed Buntings on the Cycle Path and Reed beds.

Usual suspects in Bay Little Egret,Turnstone,Oystercatcher,Redshank,Grey & Golden Plover,Kestrel,Curlew,Cormorant,Shelduck,Mallard,

Pheasant,Moorhen,Lapwing,Knot,Bar-Tailed Godwit,Black-Headed,Common,Herron,Lesser Black Backed,Great Black Backed Gull,Grey Heron.

Fungi at Pegwell Reserve

Few days spent at Pegwell Bay and Stonelees and with the usual sightings got distracted with the range of Fungi ! 

Little Egret,Juv Mute Swan,Turnstone,Short-Eared Owl,Oystercatcher,Redshank,Grey & Golden Plover,Blue,Long-Tailed and Great Tit,Kestrel,Curlew,Cormorant,Shelduck,Mallard,Peregrine Falcon,Pheasant,Moorhen,Lapwing,Knot,Bar-Tailed Godwit,Black-Headed,Common,Herron,Lesser Black Backed,Great Black Backed Gull,Grey Heron,Stock & Wood Pigeon,Collared Dove,Swallow,Green Woodpecker,Pied Wagtail,Rock Pipit,Wren,Song Thrush,Blackbird,Dunnock,Robin,Magpie,Jay,Jackdaw,Carrion Crow,Starling,Chaffinch and Goldfinch.

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SCALED INKCAP

EGGHEAD MONTTLEGILL

WHITE WEBCAP

SHAGGY INKCAP

BUTTER CAP

XANTHOMENDOZA FALLAX

STONELEES

Spent an hour walking through Stonelees this evening and came across a group of around 7 Long-Tailed Tits with some Great and Blue amongst them.

Also 4 Little Egrets on the edge of Stonelees feeding but not much else !

On the way back through Pegwell Reserve once again the Short-Eared Owl was amongst the fruit trees.

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DANDELION

DANDELION

LITTLE EGRET

SHORT-EARED OWL

SHORT-EARED OWL